jodhpur

[ jod-per ]

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noun

jodhpurs, (used with a plural verb) riding breeches cut very full over the hips and tapering at the knees to become tightfitting from the knees to the ankles.
Also called jodhpur shoe,. an ankle-high shoe for wearing with such breeches, having a strap that encircles the ankle and buckles on the side. Compare chukka boot.

Jodhpur

[ jod-per; locally johd-poor ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Jodhpur

/ ˌdʒɒdˈpʊə /

a former state of NW India, one of the W Rajputana states: now part of Rajasthan
a walled city in NW India, in W Rajasthan: university (1962). Pop: 846 408 (2001)

Origin of jodhpur¹

First recorded in 1895–1900; after Jodhpur

The chief, whose title is raja, is a Rajput of the Rathor clan, descended from a branch of the Jodhpur family.

Jodhpur was conquered by Sindhia, who levied a tribute of 60,000, and took from it the fort and town of Ajmere.

The state was founded in the reign of the emperor Akbar, by a younger son of the raja of Jodhpur.

This being translated, meant Jodhpur, which is the city of the Houyhnhnms.

Jodhpur dak-bungalow seems to be full of men "waiting here."

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